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Montreal Man : 12/19/2014 9:51 am
might be interested in.

I was contacted a couple of months ago by a guy from Ft. Worth, who is buying old television scripts for a public library devoted exclusive to that. I had a ton of them and sent them off.

But he told me about getting ten bankers boxes from a real old timer, Lawrence Marks, who I worked with on M*A*S*H's sister show ROLL OUT.
Anyway only nine arrived to the guy, one didn't. He checked all the UPS central stations and finally got the one where that package landed. It had fallen apart and they didn't know where to send it. Now they did.

The guy got the box and found some real early TV and Radio scripts there. Among them was the ORIGINAL pages, of WHO'S ON FIRST. By that he means that these were Abbot and Costello's pages and their notes were all over the margins.

That's like an ICON script, IMO.

Anyway, just thought I'd throw it out there. Merry Christmas.
Wow, that is priceless.  
Britt in VA : 12/19/2014 9:53 am : link
As a collector, that's massively cool.

Hope you are well, MM.
I imagine that's gotta be worth huge money.  
Cam in MO : 12/19/2014 9:56 am : link
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Cool story.

Tell me about it, Cam  
Montreal Man : 12/19/2014 9:58 am : link
He could take it to Southby's and auction it off.

Britt, I'm well. Hope you are, too.
He could, but I hope he doesn't.  
Britt in VA : 12/19/2014 9:59 am : link
Sounds like that priceless piece of history has fallen into the right hands. It could be the prize of his collection/library.

It would make his library a destination.
It also sounds like just the thing to put his library  
Cam in MO : 12/19/2014 10:02 am : link
"on the map" and to attract donations/raise money for it.


Ultimately how does one judge or decide,  
BlueLou : 12/19/2014 10:08 am : link
what's more important to a Ft Worth public library? The money those Who's On First originals could bring in at auction, or keeping them as obvious historical icons?

I would think the money, as they would prolly be worth more $$ to an LA area library or collector than the Ft. Worth area library? Or is there some special connection between Abbott and Costello to Ft Worth?

Cool story MM.
I see the current TV ads for 'Galavant'  
SwirlingEddie : 12/19/2014 11:00 am : link
and can't help but think of you and When Things Were Rotten. Speaking of which, my sister worked with Peter Hunt, whom you may remember from that show, when he was at Williamstown and then again on Broadway in Scarlet Pimpernel. Just small world stuff.

Best wishes to you this holiday season!
RE: Ultimately how does one judge or decide,  
Peter in Atlanta : 12/19/2014 11:06 am : link
In comment 12042578 BlueLou said:
Quote:
what's more important to a Ft Worth public library? The money those Who's On First originals could bring in at auction, or keeping them as obvious historical icons?

I would think the money, as they would prolly be worth more $$ to an LA area library or collector than the Ft. Worth area library? Or is there some special connection between Abbott and Costello to Ft Worth?

Cool story MM.


It's a library devoted to scripts. You still need some rare things to draw people through the doors.
You guys liked the story.  
Montreal Man : 12/19/2014 11:32 am : link
Blue Lou, I don't think it's Public Library funded by the city, or state, or from whomever funds libraries.

To my slim understanding, it's going to be funded independently, without civic help. But I could be wrong.

Swirling: Loved Peter Hunt. Wish he had stayed to do more of the shows. He was very helpful and, rare for many directors, didn't push a "vision" on the story. He worked to make the story work and his suggestions were designed to do that. A writers' dream.
So,  
alligatorpie : 12/19/2014 4:35 pm : link
-'Who's' was in the Marx Role Out?

Who?

Yes, Who's

What do you mean Who's?
I don't remember Roll Out  
Randy in CT : 12/19/2014 4:39 pm : link
but was a huge MASH fan. I used to watch it when it aired 3 times a day.
Hughes?  
alligatorpie : 12/19/2014 4:45 pm : link
no, Whos

Who's Huge?
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